Elisad history and goals Thomas ROUAULT. Marianne VAN DER HEYDEN 11th Elisad annual meeting Lisbon. EMCDDA 4-5 November 1999

The communication objectives n The process of the ELISAD creation and its evolution n The added value of networking in the field of information and documentation n Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level

Before Elisad... n Other network experiences n Existing info&doc centres in Europe n Toward Elisad creation…

Other network experiences n SALIS (Substance abuse libraries and information specialists)>1978 n EUSIDIC (European association of Information services)>1982 n EAHIL (European association for health information and libraries)>1985 n ICAA Information group

Existing information and documentation centres in Europe

Toward Elisad creation n Round table. Lyon March 1988 n Stockholm. Sept Working group of european documentation and information centres on AOD n Lyon. Sept Elisad creation

1988: Elisad creation n A human network n An institutional network n First meetings and constitution n Members n Main goals

Elisad action n Annual meetings n Services n Networking between members n Networking with other organisations

Elisad meetings n Elisad had many fine presentations in the past years. n What did we talk about: look at the overview and remember.

Founders n For the Elisad foundation they met in Stockholm

The first meeting: getting to know n 1988 Lyon Round table meeting n 1989 Stockholm Foundation of ELISAD n 1990 Lyon Overview of AOD Information Centres n 1991 Stockholm Fugitive literature and current issues

Around a central theme n 1992 London Indexing systems for documentation in the Substance Abuse Field n 1993 Venice Grey Literature n 1994 UtrechtResource sharing n 1995 Madrid Around the Quality Challenge of Information and Documentation Services

The last meetings n 1996 Oslo On Internet resources in the field of Alcohol and Drug Abuse n 1997 Torino On information and prevention n 1998 Paris The role of the information professionals in AOD Monitoring systems

Services n Directory n Proceedings

Communication n In the first years Elisad had a kind of a newsletter “Elisad News” n Here is the first issue

Networking n Workshops on collaboration projects n Glade n Ideas for joint actions n Project proposal Elisad-IDEA: Information and Documentation expertise on Addiction prevention

Information overview n Presentations at Salis n Overview European information resources on Internet / M. van der Heijden Overview European information resources on Internet / M. van der Heijden n Overview European associations / D. Canestri Overview European associations / D. Canestri

Salis Award

Developing information in the framework of European Community programmes n EMCDDA / REITOX n European Commission n European Council n Other international organisations

: the revolution of the information field on AOD n New information content, new problems, new users n A technological revolution n New ways of networking

Information explosion n Alcohol & Drugs in center of social attention n EU creation includes differences in attitude towards AOD n More and more is published n More and more people are working in the AOD field

New technologies n Information retrieval systems n Databases n Distributed databases n Virtual libraries

Internet n n Remote access to large international databases (PubMed) n Remote access to member- databases (NDAPD, INDID, Gruppo Abele) n Web sites: n Mailinglist

Networking n ICT enables much n ICT has still more promises than practices n Communication is fast, distances dissappear n But the language barrier remains

Added-value and future role for Elisad n Improve professional skills and techniques n Facilitating common projects n Expertise for EC work programmes n Qualitative knowledge on specialised information n Human network

Best practices n Improving professional skills and techniques has been done by Elisad for the past 11 years n We can work this out in a more structured way by comparing practices and trying to come to a common understanding

Expertise n Elisad joins professional information workers n Elisad joins information workers on AOD n Elisad joins European information workers

Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level n Project works priorities n users targeted n integrated services n relationship between information professionals n Coordination and links between projects

Project works priorities n Framework of the Virtual Library n Databases and Virtual library n Indexing tools versus thesaurus n Quality level n other projects...

Users targeted n Information specialists n AOD professionals n policy and decision-makers n general public

European «keywords« for Integrated services n Standardization n reliability n shared work n subsidiarity

Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level n relationship between information professionals n Coordination and links between projects